The Be the One Mentoring Coalition is a collaborative effort to promote mentoring of youth in Thurston and Mason Counties. The Coalition is a group of agencies who are united in an effort to recruit and support volunteers, raise awareness about the need for mentors, and to convey the benefits that mentoring programs provide to the community.

What is a Mentor?

A mentor is a caring, adult friend who devotes time to a young person. Although mentors can fill any number of different roles, all mentors have the same goal in common: to help young people achieve their potential and discover their strengths, provide support, counseling, friendship, reinforcement and a constructive example. Mentors are good listeners who care, people who want to help young people bring out strengths that are already there.

More than 220,000 Washington children could benefit from having a caring adult in their life.

We're here to help, but they need your help too.